When Floyd and Manny retire...

[SlimTrae]

Floyd Mayweather is not exciting and a complete ass hole.

Question: How many fighters have superior skills, but choose to bang?
The one that comes to mind for me is Evander. Very good boxer, who at times chose to slug it out.

How many boxers would choose to bang-if they had Floyd's ring IQ & abilities?

I concur on the Ahole part.

[Master]

Floyd Mayweather is not exciting and a complete ass hole.

Question: How many fighters have superior skills, but choose to bang?
The one that comes to mind for me is Evander. Very good boxer, who at times chose to slug it out.

How many boxers would choose to bang-if they had Floyd's ring IQ & abilities?

I concur on the Ahole part.

The best fighter in the past 25 years did Roy Jones jnr.

[SlimTrae]

Not sure I agree. But not sure how to counter.

[Beanflicker]

The best fighter in the past 25 years did Roy Jones jnr.

Roy Jones hardly ever banged. He carried many an opponent and pot-shotted his way to many a 12 round victory when he got up to 175.

[SlimTrae]

Diddo Beanflicker!

[Master]

The best fighter in the past 25 years did Roy Jones jnr.

Roy Jones hardly ever banged. He carried many an opponent and pot-shotted his way to many a 12 round victory when he got up to 175.

You kidding! Roy stopped many opponents and had a punch. Roy was entertaining and brought excitement.

No one stops Hopkins or Toney so all he could do was comprehensively outclass them.

[Beanflicker]

You kidding! Roy stopped many opponents and had a punch. Roy was entertaining and brought excitement.

No one stops Hopkins or Toney so all he could do was comprehensively outclass them.

Roy was entertaining and brought excitement... when he wanted to.

He had a lot more power than Floyd in both hands, but he also did a fair bit of dancing and coasting in his career. The guy was a human highlight reel but that's over his whole career. He had his share of stinkers.

His first fight with Bhop was one of the worst title fights ever.

But even when he was throwing leather, he was never "banging". He was always defensively-minded and used his insane reflexes to avoid punches. Arturo Gatti "banged". Roy Jones was hardly ever hit clean in the first 15 years of his career.

[Beanflicker]

Roy became less exciting at 175 when his power wasn't as pronounced as it was at 160-168.

Floyd doesn't have a lot of power and he doesn't cut weight, which means he's always fighting guys with 10-25 functional pounds on him on fight night. Floyd had a lot of exciting performances in his career and did a lot of virtuoso highlight reel shit when he was younger. He was lighting guys up with both hands. He was having a conversation about the superbowl mid fight with Jim Lampley during his fight with Bruseles, before knocking him out with a body shot.

Now he's an old fan fighting guys much bigger and younger than him. His exciting days are over.

[Master]

Roy became less exciting at 175 when his power wasn't as pronounced as it was at 160-168.

Floyd doesn't have a lot of power and he doesn't cut weight, which means he's always fighting guys with 10-25 functional pounds on him on fight night. Floyd had a lot of exciting performances in his career and did a lot of virtuoso highlight reel shit when he was younger. He was lighting guys up with both hands. He was having a conversation about the superbowl mid fight with Jim Lampley during his fight with Bruseles, before knocking him out with a body shot.

Now he's an old fan fighting guys much bigger and younger than him. His exciting days are over.

Long long gone, when was his last legitimate stoppage?

[SlimTrae]

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He was always defensively-minded and used his insane reflexes to avoid punches. Arturo Gatti "banged". Roy Jones was hardly ever hit clean in the first 15 years of his career.

This is the argument breaker here- punchstats, compubox what have you- always showed RJJ a rarely hit fighter.


Impossible to bang & not get hit. RJJ was the consummate pot shotter.

[SlimTrae]

@ the time Floyd fought Corley- he only had one loss- and not a bad one to Zab Judah.


To this day I am at a lost for words why PBF vs Corley isn't mentioned much.

Floyd is always being dogged for fighting guys moving UP in weight, but when he moved UP in weight it was like an expectation.

1st fight @ 140 and he not only banged with Corley-- he dropped him several times.